GERMANY’S ARMS POLICY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19300, 29 September 1932, Page 9

GERMANY’S ARMS POLICY

OUTLINED BY REICH CHANCELLOR

DEMAND FOR EQUALITY OF TREATMENT

United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received September 28, 9.30 p.m.) BERLIN, September 28. Captain von Papen, German Chancellor of the Reich, in a statement, declares that M. Herriot’s speech on Sunday places the facts upside down. Germany has never demanded to arm herself to the same extent to which France and the other nations are armed. Her demands amount to nothing more than within the limits of the Disarmament Convention. Germany must have the same freedom to adjust her armaments to her. needs, as that enjoyed by every other State. The question is merely Germany’s parity or rights, and equal treatment at the Disarmament Conference. Is it evidence of disarmament that French military expenditure has risen 100 per cent, in six years? Germany is ready now, as before, to accept any solution of the disarmament problem, compatible with her honour and security. Germany has waited patiently for twelve years, and cannot wait longer, and stand by and watch the Disarmament Conference falsifying the whole idea of disarmament, by a wrong assessment of disarmament factors, and the application of two different yardsticks to individual States.”